Minor Prophets Hosea/Malachi

Using the perspectives of history, pastoral theology, and cultural studies, the author presents a brief, popular, and informative introduction to the way that Catholicism has come to be practiced throughout Latin America, and is finding itself practiced in more and more multicultural Latino parishes in the United States. It looks also at the lived experiences of Latino Catholics in the Carribean, Mexico, Central or Meso America, the Northern Andes, The Southern Andes, The Southern Cone, and Brazil. It examines the cultural and theological particularities of Latin American Catholicism as...

How does the entrance song of the Mass function within the Roman Rite? What can it express theologically? What should Roman Catholics sing at the beginning of Mass? In this groundbreaking study, Jason McFarland answers these and other important questions by exploring the history and theology of the entrance song of Mass. After a careful history of the entrance song, he investigates its place in church documents. He proposes several models of the entrance song for liturgical celebration today. Finally, he offers a skillful theological analysis of the entrance song genre, focusing on the song...

Doubt and confidence are intimately related and affect a human being’s decisions in every sphere of life. In Licencia para dudar (Licence to Doubt) the author presents arguments that will help the reader understand how confidence functions, and it shows the kinds of doubts that paralyze and deprives us of being able to experiment life in all of its fullness. The book offers a clear path to tools for understanding and analyzing doubts and in that way controlling the anxieties that doubts create. Licencia para Dudar offers a self-analysis that allows the reader to customize practical...

La Cábala le fue dada al hombre junto con la creación misma, ya que el universo fue creado mediante la palabra. Así lo entendieron los cabalistas desde la antigüedad, y hasta nuestros días esta ciencia del poder de la palabra sigue en plena vigencia. Si bien el origen y todo el desarrollo de la Cábala están relacionados con el espiritualismo hebreo, como toda ciencia espiritual profunda, puede ser aprendida y practicada por cualquier persona de corazón abierto, sin importar su lengua o religión. En este libro, el lector encontrará una amplia y clara explicación de todos los...